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A ticket for the Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia with a photograph of Boston Corbett in the middle. Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett was the Union Army soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett, who homesteaded near Concordia, Kansas in the late 1870s, was hired as a doorkeeper for the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas. On February 15, 1887, while performing his doorkeeper duties, Corbett pulled a pistol and unofficially adjourned the House. He was disarmed by local police, declared insane, and committed to the State Insane Asylum in Topeka. He escaped a year later.
Date: 1876
Item Number: 308369
Call Number: B Corbett, Boston *3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 308369
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Anniversaries - Centennials
Date - 1870s - 1876
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Ticket
People - Notable Kansans - Corbett, Boston, b. 1832
Places - Other States - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Printed materials - Ticket
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